national vessels; and that no duty, charge, restriction, or prohibition shall be imposed upon, nor any drawback, bounty, exemption, or allowance withheld from, goods imported into or exported from British ports in Papal vessels, which shall not be equally imposed upon or withheld from such goods, when so imported or exported in national vessels. 2. That no other or higher duties shall be imposed on the importation into the dominions of Her Britannic Majesty of any article the growth, produce, or manufacture of the Papal States, than are or shall be payable on the like article, being the growth, produce. or manufacture of any other foreign country. That no other or higher duties or charges shall be imposed in the British dominions on the exportation of any article to the Papal States, than such as are or may be payable on the exportation of the like article to any other foreign country; and that no prohibition shall be imposed upon the importation of any article the growth, produce, or manufacture of the Papal States into the British dominions, nor upon the exportation of any article from the British dominions to the Papal States, unless such prohibition shall extend to all other nations. 3. That Papal vessels shall be at liberty to import into British ports any article legally importable, and to export from British ports any article legally exportable, on payment of the same duties, and with a right to the same bounties and drawbacks, as are or may be payable or allowable in respect of the same articles if imported or exported in national vessels. 4. That all vessels which according to the laws of the Papal States are to be deemed Papal vessels, shall, for the purposes of this Declaration, be deemed Papal vessels. 5. That the foregoing stipulations shall not apply to the coasting trade, which is reserved exclusively to national vessels. 6. That if any ship of war or merchant vessel of the Papal States shall be wrecked on the coasts of the British dominions, such ship or vessel, or any parts thereof, and all furniture and appurtenances belonging thereunto, and all goods and merchandize which shall be saved therefrom, or the produce thereof if sold, shall be faithfully restored to the owners, upon being claimed by them or by their duly authorized agents. If there are no such owners or agents on the spot, then the said ships or parts of ships, furniture, appurtenances, goods, and merchandize, or the proceeds thereof if sold, as well as all papers found on board such wrecked ships or vessels, shall be delivered to the Papal Consul or Vice-Consul in whose district the wreck may have taken place, upon being claimed by him; and such Consul, ViceConsul, owners, or agents shall pay only the expenses incurred in the preservation of the property, together with the salvage or other expenses which would have been payable in the like case of a wreck of a national vessel. The charge for such salvage and other expenses shall be made and settled immediately, subject to such right of appeal on the part of the person paying the same, as may exist in the British dominions. The goods and merchandize saved from the wreck shall not be subject to duties unless cleared for consumption, in which case they shall be liable to the same duties as if they had been imported in a British ship. 7. That the foregoing concessions are granted on condition of a perfect and entire reciprocity in favour of British vessels in the ports of the Papal States. They shall come into operation from and after the date of the present Declaration, and shall remain in force for seven years, and further until the expiration of twelve months after notice shall have been given by the British Government, or by the Papal Government, for terminating such reciprocal arrangement. In witness whereof the Undersigned has signed the present Declaration, destined to be exchanged against a similar Declaration on the part of His Eminence the Cardinal Secretary of State, and has affixed thereto the seal of his arms. Done at Florence, the seventeenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and fiftythree. (L.S.) P. CAMPBELL SCARLETT. At the Court at Windsor, the 29th day of December, 1853, PRESENT, The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. and on Whereas by an Act, passed in the session of Parliament, holden in the fifteenth sixteenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act to enable Her Majesty "to abolish, otherwise than by Treaty, on con"dition of reciprocity, differential duties "foreign ships," it is provided that where it shall appear to Her Majesty that by the laws or regulations of any Foreign Power the trade and shipping of Great Britain, in the ports of such Foreign Power, have been placed upon the same footing as the trade and shipping of such Foreign Power, either absolutely or on condition of equal or like benefits being conceded to the vessels of such Foreign Power in the ports of Her Majesty, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by Order, to be Her Majesty that the said lighthouse tolls may be reduced without injury to the services in respect of which such tolls are levied : Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, and in exercise of the powers vested in Her by the said recited Act, is pleased to direct that the lighthouse tolls (as defined in the said Act) received by the Trinity House, the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses, and the Port of Dublin Corporation, shall, on and after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, be reduced as follows; that is to say: Until Her Majesty, with the advice of Her Privy Council, may see fit otherwise to determine, there shall be allowed to every person paying such tolls, an abatement or discount upon the amount payable by him, which abatement or discount shall, in the case of every oversea vessel, be twenty-five per cent., and in the case of every coasting vessel, ten per cent. Wm. L. Bathurst. At the Court at Windsor, the 29th day of December, 1853, The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council was pleased to approve and ratify the schemes duly prepared (as set forth in this Gazette) by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England— For augmenting the income of the archdeaconry of Hereford, in the diocese of Hereford. For authorizing the sale of certain property formerly belonging to the deanery of the cathedral church of Chichester. For authorizing the sale of certain property formerly belonging to the prebend of Louth, in the cathedral church of Lincoln. [This Article is substituted for that which appeared in the Gazette of the 31st May, 1853.] Downing-Street, May 30, 1853. The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of Lieutenant-General the Honourable George Cathcart, Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, and of Major-General Henry Somerset, C.B., to be Ordinary Members of the Military Division of the Second Class or Knights Commanders of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath; and of Colonel William Eyre, Lieutenant-Colonel of the 73rd Regiment of Foot, Lieutenant-Colonel John Michel, of the 6th Regiment of Foot, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Cooke Yarborough, of the 91st Regiment of Foot. Lieutenant-Colonel George Thomas Conolly Napier, late Lieutenant-Colonel of the Regiment of Cape Mounted Riflemen, and Lieutenant-Colonel John Maxwell Perceval, of the 12th Regiment of Foot, to be Ordinary Members of the Military Division of the Third Class or Companions of the said Most Honourable Order. Board of Trade, Whitehall, The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a Dispatch from Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires, at Stockholm, enclosing a translation of a royal edict, 1854. Ꭰ |